Petrol or diesel golf mk7

[roblightbody]

Sorry I didn't see the budget. I would suggest if you're desperate for a VAG group car, go for Skoda and get more (better/newer) for the same money.

I've had a string of 3 year old used VWs which have each worked out brilliantly, but I don't think my next car will be VW at all. I'll be going Japanese or Korean I think. The mk8 Golf (and the ID3) is the first time I can recall when a new model of a car came out which I like far less than the previous model.

One reason why I chose the VW "all in", is that it forces my Arnold Clark garage to do an actual VW service on the car, rather than their basic "value" service that they insist on doing if the car is over 3 years old... its worked out well so far.

[Thriftmeister]

Yes I am in a similar position. We have a '13 Reg Golf GT and a '21 plate A4 Avant. Both superb cars to be in, and to drive, but the Golf has cost just over £2,000 in repairs over the past 12 months not including regular servicing. The Audi needs a software reset on the MMI about every 6 weeks to recover either the radio or the sat-nav or the CarPlay!

Like you, Mrs ThriftM walked away from the Golf 8 and its cost saving touchscreen stupidity. She also said a new Polo was overall less desirable than her 10 year old Golf.

Add to that the VW and Audi dealers near me are utterly appalling & incompetent and I have no choice but to look elsewhere. The question is where? Japan, Korea?

[Crasher]

Skoda

[Whippy53]

Yes I am in a similar position. We have a '13 Reg Golf GT and a '21 plate A4 Avant. Both superb cars to be in, and to drive, but the Golf has cost just over £2,000 in repairs over the past 12 months not including regular servicing. The Audi needs a software reset on the MMI about every 6 weeks to recover either the radio or the sat-nav or the CarPlay!

Like you, Mrs ThriftM walked away from the Golf 8 and its cost saving touchscreen stupidity. She also said a new Polo was overall less desirable than her 10 year old Golf.

Add to that the VW and Audi dealers near me are utterly appalling & incompetent and I have no choice but to look elsewhere. The question is where? Japan, Korea?

Well, after years of saying I wouldn't, finally added a BMW 530 to my 'collection ' and so far I'm impressed. Won't last though,vso I've kept the A6 for when (not if) it does on me.

[Thriftmeister]

Crasher,

I bow to your better judgement but are you not contradicting yourself when you say:

"Personally I think the entire range of engines are junk"

And
"Skoda"

[Crasher]

Well if I wanted a new car, which I definitely don’t, I would have to make the best of a bad job and go for a Superb Sportline estate 280 or Arteon Shooting Brake 280 with the EA888 engine which I consider the lesser of the many evils, and I could drop one of these cash now… but I won’t. It isn’t VAG’s fault that all their engines are junk, it is stupid CO2 hysteria legislation inflicted on all of us by Marxist ideology. The last great engine VAG made was the 1.8 20VT, that they never made a 2 litre is a lost opportunity as I have built my own and they are fantastic, fulfilling that perfect slightly under square 500cc per cylinder design lauded recently by Cosworth as perfect. I fully intend to stick with my Octavia 1U VRS until they take my license off me, if ever the engine does let go, I will rebuild it as a 2 litre and continue to give the CO2 mob the significant middle digit… Even though it is a 2003, it is still fully ULEZ compliant so an up yours to Sadistic Kahn and his Marxist mob and vindicates what I have been screaming about over small Diesel engines for twenty years… now we have another ******* nightmare to contend with, EV’s, a disaster coming to your driveway soon.

[Whippy53]

Yeah, well we have a horse, an actual four legged grass munching beast. So, if push comes to shove you can put your bland, grey, plastic Euro tupperware box of angry pixies where the sun don't shine. Pony FTW.

[Crasher]

I want to get my Golf 1 and 2 GTI’s back on the road and restore (again) my 72 Bug, that is proper environmentally friendly transport… want to save the world, stop making new things and reuse what we have.

[Thriftmeister]

Data shows there’s no climate catastrophe looming – climatologist Dr J Christy debunks the narrative - YouTube

I watched that. I'm not climate tree hugger nor am I a denying zealot but is this bloke for real? Temperatures going up by 1 degree may not affect the tourists in Tenerife but what about fish, coral, crops, insects etc? They don't have A/C or central heating.

Seriously flawed arguments there Crasher.

I'm not siding with either camp. Temperatures have gone up & down since the beginning of time for reasons various. However, it does have a huge effect on which species live or die.

[Crasher]

There are seriously flawed arguments on both sides but it is probaly all going to be immaterial if Ping Pong the mad man invades Taiwan as predicated in 2025, when that happens none will give a **** about climate change.